Noticias

Fond Du Lac Reporter. Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin. A Fond du Lac judge has sealed a case from public access and dismissed 22 charges against a man arrested for human trafficking and soliciting prostitutes. Judge Gary Sharpe declined a phone call from USA TODAY Network-Wisconsin asking that he discuss his decision for sealing the case involving 27-year-old Beau Brown from public view …

My San Antonio. San Antonio, Texas. The Texas Department of Public Safety arrested eight suspects during a four-month-long investigation into human trafficking operations in the Alamo City, a news release said Wednesday. The investigation started in January, when the DPS Criminal Investigations Division (CID) Special Agents started looking into human trafficking and prostitution in Bexar County. The agents halted several …

CBS Boston. Boston, Massachussetts. Five people have been arrested in connection with trafficking women for sex at brothels in and around Boston. The arrests were made Thursday after a four-month joint operation by local police, the FBI, the Massachusetts State Police, and Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey’s office. Read the full story here. 

Premium Times. Nigeria. Italy. The Italian Ambassador to Nigeria, Fulvio Rustico, says his country is ready to partner with Nigeria to combat the menace of human trafficking. Mr. Rustico disclosed this when he visited the Director-General, National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, Julie Okah-Donli, in Abuja on Thursday. He said the Speaker of the Chamber of …

U.S. News. Bangkok. Thai police found 35 migrants from Myanmar abandoned and wandering in a southern forest on Friday, raising fears that smuggling and trafficking routes are flourishing despite a crackdown by authorities. The 28 men and seven women were discovered by villagers in Tha Sala district in Nakorn Si Thammarat province, police said. They were on their way to …

CNS News. United States. With the myriad U.S. interests at stake in foreign policy, where exactly do human rights fit in? Secretary of State Rex Tillerson spoke to this question on Wednesday while discussing the role of values in U.S. foreign policy decision making. “Now I think it’s important to also remember that guiding all of our foreign policy actions …

Relief Web. United Nations. Global Acting by consensus, the General Assembly adopted a resolution today laying out organizational arrangements for a high-level meeting to review progress made on implementation of the United Nations Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons. By terms of the resolution — titled “Modalities, format and organization of the high-level meeting of the General …

Hoy en TV. Mexico. Las autoridades mexicanas capturaron con fines de extradición a Estados Unidos a Juan Romero, presunto miembro de una organización trasnacional de trata de personas, informó hoy la Procuraduría General de la República (PGR, fiscalía). Suelen violar, golpear, torturar y mantener como esclavas a sus víctimas, algunas de ellas menores de edad. Después de que una mujer …

Solicitors Journal. Europe. Herbert Smith Freehills has advised on the development of a new toolkit to help European banks fight human trafficking using financial data. The toolkit is the product of the European Bankers Alliance, a multi-stakeholder working group, established in 2015 by the Thomson Reuters Foundation, as well as Barclays, HSBC, Standard Chartered, Deutsche Bank, and Santander, among others. …

Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Ukraine. More than 90,000 foreign visitors are expected to visit Ukraine in this period. The “Welcome to Ukraine!” information leaflets provide basic information on how to stay safe and avoid violating national law, in particular regarding human trafficking and the sexual abuse of children. They also contain emergency phone numbers and phone numbers …